Pedagogy of visibilizing pain and suffering: A commentary on the special issue

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Ardavan Eizadirad

Dr. Ardavan Eizadirad (@DrEizadirad) is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Education at Wilfrid Laurier University. He is an educator with the Toronto District School Board, author of Decolonizing Educational Assessment: Ontario Elementary Students and the EQAO (2019), and co-editor of Equity as Praxis in Early Childhood Education and Care (2021), and International Handbook of Anti-Discriminatory Education (forthcoming 2022). His research interests include equity, standardized testing, community engagement, anti-oppressive practices, critical pedagogy, social justice education, resistance, and decolonization. Dr. Eizadirad is also the founder and Director of EDIcation Consulting (http://www.edication.org) offering equity, diversity, and inclusion training to organizations.

Steve Sider

Dr. Steve Sider (@DrSteveSider) is a professor in the Faculty of Education at Wilfrid Laurier University where he teaches courses in global education, school leadership, and inclusive education. He has won multiple teaching awards including the 2019 Laurier Donald F. Morgenson Faculty Award for Teaching Excellence in the category of Excellence in Internationalization. He is the inaugural program coordinator for the Laurier Bachelor of Arts in International Education Studies program, the first of its kind in Canada. He currently holds three Canadian national research grants examining inclusive leadership practices of school principals in Canada, Haiti, and Ghana. Dr. Sider is the director of the Centre for Leading Research in Education, an interdisciplinary research centre at Laurier. He is a Fellow at the Balsillie School of International Affairs and an Associate of Inclusive Education Canada and the Canadian Research Centre on Inclusive Education. Prior to his work in the Faculty of Education, Dr. Sider was a school administrator, special education teacher, and classroom teacher for 15 years.